The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-31
THE USES OF PAPER.
Some of the Remarkable Ways in Which the
Article Is Now Utilized

Some of the Remarkable Ways in which the
Article Is Now Utilized.
II. r. Bowker in June Harper.
The paper wheel" is made up of this disk of
compressed paper, surrounded by steel tire.
and fitted with a cast-iron hub. which IS bored
for the axle; wrought iron plates protect the
paper disk on either side and all bolted to-
gether by two circles of bolts one set passing
through fianCe of tho tire, the other through a
ianGe of the hub. and both through the paper
center and it's protecting plates.
The real service of the paper is in lnterposing
a nor vibrating substance between the axle and
the tire, so that the vibrations, which in some
unknown way rearranCe the atoms of metal SO
that it brittles and breaks after long wear, are
prevented. Nature always provides some way
of wearing things out, whether it be man, lest
he lag superfiuous the stage, or 1.-The
everlasting hills" themselves, bug In the case
of compressed paper. art seems to have
got ahead of nature, for it seems not co wear
out at all The steel tires of these wheels do
wear down, and are then returned in lathe to
smaller diameter: but when they are gone and
taken off, the paper block appears again as
good as new, and ready for a new tire. The pa
per wheel has the one disadvantage of greater
cost. but its longer life and greater safety are in
its favor.
ton of paper for building purposes; it is used.
not for posts or beams. but in place of lath and
plaster. for sheathing, etc. An ordinary ''straw
board" paper is made the cylinder machine
the refuse bedding of stables being very largely
utilized as the material-and is run through
vat, of resin and other water-proofng
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of sheets then placed together be-
tween metal plates, and subjected like the car
wheels TO enormous pressure In a hydraulic
press. The result is very hard and solid
blacksh board. about three sixteenths of
inch thick, which be cut with saw OF
chisel, and is marketed in slabs IL feet by 30
inches at price of about $40 per thousand
. feet This is now in also for the interior of
railway and for perforated chair seats
Building paper" of the ordinary sort is
paper of straw used for sheathing
was mt "a ms
Immediately after the Chicago fire, when
Western paper company lined the ten thousand
houses, 16x20 which were run up to accommo
date the homeless, with this material, at cost
of So for each house
The conducting quality of paper has
caused a curious development in America of the
paper box Industry SO that the lover of oysters
may take home fry in box to keep 1t hot,
brick of ice-cream to keep it cool. The
Chinese and japanese are said to make paper
clothes, and their hanokerchiefs and napkins
well known to US, but American
achievements in this direction have been
confined chiefly to paper collars. cuffs. and
''bosoms. sometimes with a backing of clotn,
which may be pasted on after making, but
which is con Joined with the paper at some mills
by Keeling the cloth off parallel with the web of
paper. and pressing the two permanently to-
Eether between rollers. The of paper bags
and paper boxes by shop-ke has reached
enormous proportions, and the latest prod
uct of American ingenuity is a "self-opening
bag" completed automatically from the web of
manila paper by machine which its own
ers had been at work for eight years. This is
folded fiat AS it comes from the machine. but
single dextrous flap with the hand opens 1t
into absolutely square-cornered bag which
Ali stand upright the grocers counter to
be filed. Paper buckets, barrels, and other
household utensils either made by joining
the edges of fiat sheet into a cylinder, or by
stamping oct the form from paper pulp. which
last was the basis of the papier mache of old
days. which was nodded soft into the desired
shape, coated with successive layers of asphalt
yarnish, and polished down Paper pulp Is also
used in process of stereotyping to make
matrix for the type-metal.